ARTIST

1976年広島県生まれ、大阪府在住。日本鉄道写真作家協会（JRPS）会友。

少年時代に「青春18きっぷ」の一人旅で、線路の先に続く雄大な風景や見知らぬ街、そして出会った人達に魅了されて撮影を始める。現在は広告代理店に勤務の傍ら、鉄道をモチーフに距離感や時間などをテーマとして個展・グループ展・鉄道雑誌などで写真を発表。JR西日本「大阪環状線改造プロジェクト」のプロモーションを担当したことを契機に大阪環状線の個展を3度開催。今回は駅のホームで走り去っていく列車を流し撮りして、乗客の姿を窓越しに記録した《Passings》を展示する。流し撮りによって背景は流れ、車内の人々の何気ない姿が浮かび上がる。

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Born in 1976 in Hiroshima Prefecture; lives in Osaka Prefecture. Associate member of the Japan Railway Photographers Society (JRPS).

Sasaki began taking photographs as a boy, captivated by the vast landscapes stretching beyond the tracks, unfamiliar towns, and the people he met while traveling alone on the Seishun 18 Kippu, a discount pass for unlimited travel on local trains. Alongside his work at an advertising agency, he presents photographs that take railways as their motif to explore themes such as distance and time, through solo and group exhibitions as well as railway magazines. His role in promoting JR West’s project to revamp the Osaka Loop Line led him to hold three solo exhibitions devoted to the line. For this exhibition, he presents his series Passings, in which he photographed departing trains from station platforms using a panning technique, capturing passengers through the windows. The panning blurs the background into streaks, allowing the unguarded, everyday figures of the people inside to emerge.

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展示作品

駅のホームで佇む私の前を通り過ぎていく列車の窓。すれ違う一瞬を流し撮りすると背景は流れ、乗客たちの無意識で飾らない姿が浮かび上がる。どこか遠くを見つめる眼差しや、楽しげに語り合う人たち。二度と会うことのない他者と交差して流れていく邂逅を、私は愛おしく思う。本作《Passings》は、このすれ違いの瞬間と他者との距離感をテーマにした写真群である。

会場の旧松本少年刑務所独居舎房が蓄積する「静止した時間の重み」に対し、本作が静かに重ね合わせるのは「流動の一瞬」だ。遮断された空間に、走り去る列車の光芒と刹那の出会いを置くと、閉じられた過去の重みと開かれた瞬間の軽やかさが響き合い、この場所に新たな時空の揺らぎが生まれる。

かつて人々が自己と向き合ったこの場所で、見知らぬ他者の日常と出会う。写真の中の誰かは、いつかのあなた自身かもしれない。二つの時間が溶け合うこの空間から、ささやかな優しさが芽生えていくことを願っている。

Train windows pass before me as I stand on a station platform. When I capture that fleeting moment of passing with a panning shot, the background streams away, and the passengers emerge in their unselfconscious, unadorned states: eyes gazing somewhere far off, people chatting happily together. I hold dear these encounters with strangers I will never see again, our paths crossing for an instant before flowing apart. Passings is a series of photographs that takes as its theme these moments of passing and the distance between ourselves and others.

Against the “weight of stilled time” accumulated in the former single-cell block of the Matsumoto Juvenile Prison, this work quietly overlays “a moment of flow.” When the streaks of light from departing trains and these fleeting encounters are placed within this sealed-off space, the weight of a closed past and the lightness of an open moment resonate with each other, and a new wavering of time and space arises in this place.

Here, where people once faced themselves, we encounter the everyday lives of strangers. Someone in these photographs might be you, on some other day. I hope that from this space, where two kinds of time merge, a small kindness may begin to grow.